A country which has its survival threatened by the vicious terrorist group, Boko Haram, facing economic woes, high rate of unemployment, massive infrastructural decay, and corruption challenges should now realise that it is impossible to overcome all these challenges while still dwelling on the biases resulting from ethnicity and tribalism as old as the nation. For the country to really take centre stage in African and world affairs, it needs to settle its internal matters which are generally hinged on the lack of unity among various ethnic groups.

The ruling party, African National Congress boasts that it will only be upstaged after the return of Jesus Christ. In February, the party’s youth league was however forced to hastily organise a music festival a few streets away from the launch ceremony of EFF’s election manifesto in Tembisa. If this was meant to overshadow the launch, the opposite was achieved. The 30 000 capacity Metlhareng stadium where EFF was launching was over spilling before all delegates arrived. The official count is reported to have been more than 50000.